Question 1

Where does my data live, and who can see it?

Accepted Answer

Your data lives in a single-tenant isolation envelope — signed, encrypted, and audited — and nothing leaves your account to train a shared model. Regional residency is configurable per engagement, and every read or write is entry-logged for the audit trail your board — or your regulator — will eventually ask for.

Question 2

Is the analysis AI-only, or is a human in the loop?

Accepted Answer

The agents do the continuous, unglamorous work — ingesting your stack, surfacing deltas, drafting the language. The senior review layer returns at exactly two pressure points: the boardroom-ready draft before it goes to your CEO, and the regulated-diligence overlay when the question has to stand up to a future deposition. The layer is audit-logged every time it fires, and is calibrated for boardroom accountability — not for a research-paper citation chart.

Question 3

How fast can diligence turn around vs a tier-1 firm?

Accepted Answer

A traditional diligence cycle is six to eight weeks of scoping calls, expert calls, write-ups, and re-bill; the same surface on Northwake runs continuously and compresses to under three weeks. Your first anomalous deviation pings the dashboard before the next market open — a working dossier that would have been a tier-1 scoping memo.

Question 4

What does Northwake cost vs tier-1 daily rates?

Accepted Answer

Northwake is a monthly subscription, priced for the SME mid-market and APAC growth-region buyer that tier-1 daily rates priced out a long time ago — apples to project engagements, not apples to on-call advisory retainers. On a single call we will tell you whether the projection is a healthy fit for the diagnostic surface you actually need, and we will tell you when it is not.

Question 5

What happens in the first 24 hours after I sign up?

Accepted Answer

Day one: we scope the diagnostic against your stack, stand up the agent wire-up against your source systems, and you meet the operator who owns the engagement. Day two — before the next market open — the first briefing lands on your dashboard: no procurement cycle, no scoped RFP, no steering committee to align.

01Where does my data live, and who can see it?

02Is the analysis AI-only, or is a human in the loop?

03How fast can diligence turn around vs a tier-1 firm?

04What does Northwake cost vs tier-1 daily rates?

05What happens in the first 24 hours after I sign up?